Sign up now for the next PS4 system software beta

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Last September, we put a call out to PS4 owners to test out our next system software update, and since we’re getting close to the release of our next system software update for PS4, we wanted to do it again! Starting today you can sign up to be a beta tester and get a sneak peek at some of the features making their way to your PS4.

Click here to sign up. The beta will kick off in early March, and if you’re part of it, you’ll receive an email with instructions on downloading the system software. You can roll back to the previous system software at any time, so don’t worry about downloading the beta.

In order to sign up, you’ll need a PS4 console with an internet connection and a master account. We’ll share more details on which features you’ll be able to test when the beta begins.

Be sure to join the PlayStation Forums to get access to our beta forums, so you can discuss the new features. We’ll be monitoring the forums throughout the beta. While we can’t always implement changes suggested by the community, it’s really valuable for us to hear your feedback to help guide the direction we take. We’re always listening!

We would like to thank everyone who signed up for the last beta, and we hope all of you (and those who didn’t too) will sign up again. Don’t wait too long to sign up – we’re accepting a limited number of beta testers, so get in now before it’s too late.

this is why we needed actual PS2 backward compatibility as Sony seem to have given up on the PS2 games already. notice how other than Rockstars games that all those PS2 games are published by Sony so it looks like companies don’t want anything to do with it.

I’d be quite happy if Rockstar would do a bit more and put The Warriors and Canis Canem Edit on there. Those were by far my fave ever Rockstar games and my fave PS2 games.

I don’t want actual PS2 disc playback personally. I don’t use discs anymore if I can help it. (and I long since sold all my PS2 stuff years ago) Plus I prefer the PS4 re-released PS2 games to their original versions. I’d just like them to keep doing those!

well waiting for Sony to add any games you will be waiting forever as they love dripfeeding content at a snails pace whereas if we had disc compatibility you could literally go onto Amazon and order the game you want. Sony couldn’t get many companies to allow PS2 classics on PS3 so i doubt many of those companies still care as they would rather you spend money on overpriced DLC and microtransactions than give you cheap PS2 games.

Signed up, I hope to see a lot of improvements to Communities and also for Groups to actually be something useful for organising friends.

I also hope to see some influence from the feedback that people give this time as the previous test resulted in no change in the firmware to reflect any if the common comments, that makes the feedback feel unvalued

I’d also like the option to turn this off entirely. Really irritating when you check below your game/app and see a random dude playing the game you’re about to play (ps live) and get stuff spoiled -_- Almost makes me want to play offline to circumvent that completely.. -_- All social stuff besides the bare necessities should be entirely optional.

@rayna-monique – The problem is they didn’t say that when you first created your id back in 2006. And even if they did in some line of the multi page agreement everyone ignores, 10 years is a long time with the same ID if you do not like it… So those who have been the most loyal are stuck with an old name, with the only option being to create a new account and abandon your trophies/games. The majority would be more than happy to pay to change our ID names, like with Xbox Live.

people need to stop asking this. its not going to happen and would need the PSN to be completely overhauled for months offline and that would cost this money hungry company too much money just for one feature to please neckbeards.

I don’t get why people seem to assume that changing your ID even needs a new firmware. It’s something that’s saved server-side in their databases, the firmware only uses the information like ID and password and logs into those systems remotely.

So no, this won’t be in this firmware since it never will. Might one day be available through a website tho…

Pls give us folder support with this update oh pretty please… im tired of searching through my library, it has more than 100 titles all digital. it is a nightmare. yes i can sort alphabetically and recent use, but i want folders with custom names like local coop, open world etc. We already has folders like tv and video, we just need to be able to create custom ones and manually add games there. it is a must have with digital games i think.

Couple of things I can think of that keep reccuring or need some work. I’d like the maximum volume for headset/phone you connect via the Dualshock 4 to go higher, it is too low for playing with in-ear sets.The option to turn off Party invites (not just the notification -_-) as this gets abused with spam etc..A sorting option for the Apps bar (former XMB) so I can atleast see my games instead of pre-installed apps everytime I rebuild database or whatever. Ridiculous I have to start up every game just to get it to the front.The option to delete games without a zero percentage (PLUS games mostly) from your trophies.The ability to add purchased content on ps4 to your list without downloading it. Ridiculous I have to purchase something, quickly leave the store to delete it from downloading, and repeat..That’s all I can come up with now, hopefully some of it gets taken into account.

No, I just have one of those crazy loud jet engine launch PS4’s. But even apart from that, it’s still fairly quiet altogether with my in-ear Sennheiser and Apple headphones. (Also, I refer to the in-ear kind that simply sits in your ear, not the ones that go in your ear canal and might be louder). A couple of extra bars of volume definitely wouldn’t do wrong.

Oh, and another small thing I forgot. In the What’s New section, I’d like to be able to choose what I see, not what others decide to show me. For example, I don’t want to see what trophies a friend unlocked even if he decided to share that in the What’s New section.

I’d really like to see howmany hours I have put into my games. Xbox has this, so why doens’t Playstation? It’s always great to compare the hours played for each game with friends! Such a little addition should be no problem at all. Even Steam and Origin has this…

@Stonesthrow:You can turn the screenshots off. Open the share options (press the Share-button until the menu pops up and then press the options-button on the DS4). There’s a menu for screenshot settings. Select that and deactivate the checkbox related to trophy-pictures (can’t tell the exact text as I’m using german UI).

The PS4 interface was designed by a monkey. It lacks half the features of the PS3 (don’t get me started on online notifications/status, game folders, sorting options…). The multitasking OS is not that bad, but the GUI needs a complete overhaul.

Just sort out PSN, theres constant problems, signing in problems, masses of disconections from games, cant add funds to wallet problems, cant purchase problems, these things are more important to a user than new software.

I see, doesn’t change the fact that this chip should already of being in the ps4 at launch. As for being considerate towards competitive players my connection is fine as it is, just wanted the 5ghz for faster game downloads of digital games from the PlayStation store.

I never thought testing unfinished OS which is crucial to maintain hardware working at all is a good idea.Even with finished and fully released OS was a lot of troubles from time to time.Let’s hope no one will brick their PS4 during testing.

Hopefully the next update will allow users to remove/hide items on the home screen and library. I don’t see the point in having things like The Playroom and ShareFactory taking up space when I never use them. Or demos still being listed in the library right next to the full game I now have.

It would also be good to have an option to turn off the videos and screenshots that now appear on each game’s home menu page. If I’ve just started playing a game I really don’t need an autoplay video showing the final cutscene at the end of the game. It was fine the way it was before. People know where to go if they want to see things like that.

Exactly. And even if we can’t delete apps we never use, atleast give us a sorting option to get them out of the picture. I don’t want to look at those things any more than I would an ugly background.Didn’t even know about the demos on ps4, haven’t tried any since my list on ps3 grew too big -_-And also agree with your second point to turn off the streaming vids in the home menu page. Was much better before when you just saw the installed and available DLC.

The UI really need to focus more on the user experience!We need a better community, timeline sharing etc. -focus on the social communication!And I would love to get somekind of process-status-thing on the trophies;when you need to kill like 1000 monsters to get a trophy, you have no clue how long in the process you are :D